Wisdom
תּוּשִׁיָּהStrong’s H8454tushiyyah (tu-shiy-yah)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tushiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sound wisdom” and “success”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.”
Meaning
- Wisdom, sound knowledge, success, sound or efficient wisdom, abiding successsound or efficient wisdom · abiding success (of the effect of sound wisdom)
How it's translated
- and sound wisdom 4
- success 3
- sound wisdom 3
- to sound wisdom 1
- and success 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 6
- Proverbs 4
- Isaiah 1
- Micah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 6:13Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
- Job 11:6And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
- Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
- Job 26:3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
- Job 30:22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
- Proverbs 2:7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוּשִׁיָּה tushiyyah · wisdom
1) wisdom, sound knowledge, success, sound or efficient wisdom, abiding success 1a) sound or efficient wisdom 1b) abiding success (of the effect of sound wisdom)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wisdom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WISDOM, noun
s as z. [G. See Wise.]
- The right use or exercise of knowledge; the choice of laudable ends, and of the best means to accomplish them.
- In Scripture, human learning; erudition; knowledge of arts and sciences.“Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians” Acts 7:22
- Quickness of intellect; readiness of apprehension; dexterity in execution; as the wisdom of Bezaleel and Aholiab. Exodus 31:3
- Natural instinct and sagacity. Job 39:17
All definitions
- In Scripture theology, wisdom is true religion; godliness; piety; the knowledge and fear of God, and sincere and uniform obedience to his commands. Psalms 90:12Job 28:12
- Profitable words or doctrine. Psalms 37:30
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.